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Akunyili lacks power to cancel NCC licence sale, Attorney General tells Yar Adua:
Attorney General and Minister of Justice Michael Kaase Aondoakaa may have advised President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua that Minister of Information and Communications, Dora Akunyili is not vested with the powers by the nation’s laws to cancel licences issued by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the nation’s telecoms regulator, in what may pave the way for the resolution of the impasse that has trailed last month’s sale of three slots of 2.3GHz spectrum by the telecoms regulator.
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NIRA sets July 8 deadline for renewal of Nigerian internet domain names:
The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA) has announced that all domains registered under the nation's .ng internet name prior to January 1, this year will expire by July 8, 2009 following the recent automation of domain registration flagged off by the group representing the nation's internet community.
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Big Brother Africa gets underway with USD200,000 prize money:
Plans are underway to scour the continent for potential housemates as M-net Africa announced the new season of the ultimate African super-series, TV reality show, Big Brother Africa which will commence in September 2009.
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Zain unveils mobile phone community for Nigeria Police:
Zain Nigeria, POLCOM, the Police Communication Network and AdonaiNet, a service provider, said that they have introduced telecoms service to enable the Nigeria Police community communicate nationwide.
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Akunyili, Ndukwe and allied matters:
Many thanks to a statement put out recently by a concerned JACITAD, I am now very much able to appreciate the dangerously counter-productive political one-upmanship going on between the Honourable Minister of Communications and Information, Prof. Dora Akunyili, and her Bros, the Executive Vice-Chairman of the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), Engineer Ernest Ndukwe. According to the group, a sort of coalition of telecommunications industry reporters, the face-off between the Minister and the EVC, which has been otherwise subterranean, came to the open last week, and is potentially capable of stunting or stifling the vast advancements so far achieved in the telecommunications industry. And I totally agree with them.
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